If you haven’t heard, Microsoft is developing a new tool that provides a Microsoft-supported, freely available, stand-alone solution for converting VMware virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V-based virtual machines and virtual hard drives (VHDs). The tool is not released yet but you can download and test the RC version.

Overview of System Center 2012 Visio MP Designer—VMPD

The System Center 2012 Visio MP Designer—VMPD—is an add-in for Visio 2010 Premium that allows you to visually design a System Center Operations Manager Core Monitoring Management Pack. VMPD generates a Management Pack that is compliant to the MP Authoring Best Practices by simply dragging and dropping Visio shapes to describe your application architecture and configuring them through the Shape Properties. Feature Summary

It’s holiday session and if you have some free time on the beach and want to read/listen to new cool stuff about Windows/System Center – here are some resources.

Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)

Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) is a collection of free online trainings all about the latest Microsoft technologies. Here you have allot to choose from, for example System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, VDI and more.